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Here's Comet C/2013 US10 (Catalina) above Alpha Centauri at about 8pm last night. At the moment it is gliding through the Milky Way starfields in the southern constellation Circinus. This untracked image is a 22 x 4 sec exposures taken with a Canon 6D and 70-200mm lens at f/4 and 21800 iso, stacked using DeepSkyStacker and processed in Lightroom 5.
The Whirlpool Galaxy, with it's companion galaxy NGC 5195, is an interacting grand-design spiral galaxy with an active galactic nucleus. It is located in the constellation Canes Venatici. It was the first galaxy to be classified as a spiral galaxy. The gravitational interactions between the two galaxies have distorted the spiral arms of Messier 51 and triggered bursts of star formation. Faint clouds and streamers of stars that have been disturbed from their orbits can be seen in the space surrounding the two galaxies.
20 60-sec images, ZWO ASI290mm camera, Optolong CLS filter, Explore Scientific ED 80APO refractor, Celestron Advanced VX EQ mount.
7 dark frames for calibration
.AVI file converted to .FITS files via PiPP
Stacking with DeepSkyStacker
Post-processing with Photoshop CC2017
The comet is still low in the twilight in the constellation Lynx, but this image, while still rather noisy, is an improvement on what I captured in June.
16 x 30-sec exposures at f/4.5 and ISO 3200 with an EOS 600D and Zeiss Jena 135mm f/3.5 lens on a Vixen Polarie star tracker. The frames were stacked on the comet in DeepSkyStacker, with curves adjustment and further noise reduction in post-processing. The image was also heavily cropped.
NGC 891 is an edge-on barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Andromeda, located about 30 million light years from Earth.
This was imaged using a combination of cameras and telescopes. I imaged the luminance with the QSI 683 wsg-8 and the color data was imaged with a modified Canon T1i in 2011.
Imaged from Ocala, FL
Combination of 240 sec. and 360 sec. exposure stacked in DeepSkyStacker for a total of 5 hours and 23 minutes in the RGB channel
6 minute exposures stacked in DeepSkyStacker totaling 3.6 hours in the luminance channel.
Processed in Photoshop CS5
Imaging telescopes: Astro-Tech 6" Ritchey-Chrétien (RGB from 2011) and Astro-Tech 8" Ritchey-Chrétien (Luminance from 2013)
Imaging cameras: Modified Canon T1i (RGB data from 2011) and the QSI 683 wsg-8 (Luminance from 2013)
Losmandy G 11 with Gemini II
The Perseus molecular cloud complex, about 1,000 light-years from Earth, contains two notable areas of star formation: the IC 348 star cluster on the lower left, and NGC 1333 (VdB 17) on the upper right. Other DSOs in this extent include: Barnards 1,3,5, 202, 204, 203, 205, 206; and reflection nebulae VdB 12 (yellow), VdB 13 (blue), and VdB 16 (blue).
Fujifilm X-T10, Samyang 135mm f/2.0 ED UMC @ f2.0, ISO 1600, 50 x 60 sec, tracking with iOptron SkyTracker Pro, stacking with DeepSkyStacker, editing with Astro Pixel Processor and GIMP, taken on Nov. 20, 2019 under Bortle 2/3 skies. This dust is faint - I pushed the data pretty hard; APP was great for maintaining good color despite the pushing.
Target:NGC 2023 LBN954 Horsehead Nebula emission and reflection nebule in the constellation of Orion at 1300 light years distance.
Location:Multiple nights Jan 2021 St Helens UK B8 passing clouds, moon 59% to 76%.
Aquisition:34x 180s Ha, 21x 180s (OIII), 17x 180s (SII), total integration 216 min.
Equipment:Capture: Skywatcher Esprit 100ED, HEQ5, ZWO ASI160MM Pro, EFWmini with Baader NB Filters.
Guiding: Skywatcher 9x50 Finder, ASI1200MM.
Software:Aquisition: NINA, PHD2.
Processing: DeepSkyStacker, Siril, Starnet++, Photoshop.
Memories:A few setbacks on this target. Obstructed view south so 4 shorter imaging sessions one of which, with the best data, was deleted off imaging pc by mistake before being transferred to processing pc. Clouds resulted in more lost frames and the moon affected the contrast on the (OIII). During processing, Photoshop crashed loosing 3 hours of work which had to be repeated. Still happy with the end result though.
Taken with a TMB92L, Hutech-modified Canon T3i DSLR, Orion SSAG autoguider and 50mm guidescope, and Celestron AVX mount. Consists of 35 120-second light frames and 31 120-second dark frames, all at ISO 800, as well as 35 flat and 50 bias frames. Captured with BackyardEOS, stacked in DeepSkyStacker, and processed in Photoshop.
Telescopi o obiettivi di acquisizione: Celestron 127/1500 Maksutov-Cassegrain
Camere di acquisizione: Svbony SV105
Montature: Celestron SLT
Software: Registax · DeepSkyStacker · AutoStakkert! · photoshop
Accessorio: 2.5x barlow
Data:31 Ottobre 2020
Ora: 21:26
Pose: 2500
FPS: 30,00000
Lunghezza focale: 3750
Seeing: 3
Trasparenza: 7
Risoluzione: 768x512
Luoghi: Terrazzo di casa (Sant'Agata li Battiati), Sant'Agata Li Battiati, CT, Italia
Origine dei dati: Giardino
Taken during a full Moon with
Nikon d610(stock), iso800
TS-Optics 72mmf6
total of 280 minutes with 180sec subs
guiding:
ZWO asi120mcs
TS 50mm/f3.6 guidescope
Tracking: Skywatcher Star Adventurer
software:
guiding: phd2
Stacking: Deepskystacker 4.2.2
Processing: Adobe Photoshop, GradientXterminator, Nik software, HLVG, Adobe Raw
Fecha: 22-02-2020, de 21h46m a 00h23m U.T.
Lugar: Las Inviernas, Guadalajara
Temperatura: de +04.0ºC a +01.5ºC
Cámara: ZWO ASI071MC Pro
Óptica: Telescopio Smidt Cassegrain C8, de 203 mm de diámetro y 2023 mm de distancia focal (f/10).
Montura: Skywatcher EQ6 Pro Synscan v.3.25
Guiado: Automático con QHY-5 mono y PHD Guiding v.1.14.0, utilizando un telescopio refractor Orion 80mm de diámetro a f/5.
Filtros: Ninguno.
Exposiciones: 10 imágenes de 600s cada una, a -05ºC y 300 de ganancia,
en total, 1h40min.
30 darks de 600s, a -05ºC y 300 de ganancia.
30 bias de 0.001s, a -05ºC y 300 de ganancia.
Software: APT Astro Photographic Tool v.3.82
DeepSkyStacker v.4.2.0
PixInsight LE 1.0
Adobe Photoshop CC 2017
Astronomy Tools v.1.6
This is the cleanest photo I've taken of the Orion nebulae complex from the Flame and Horsehead nebulae to the Running Man and Great Orion Nebula (M42). This is a total of one hour's worth of exposure data (12 x 5 minutes) under a rural sky. I did use a light pollution filter to cut out the sky glow from the surrounding villages. I may tweak the colour saturation later. But I just wanted to show you how fairly clean it looks.
Here is Comet C/2021 Y1 (ATLAS) from last evening.
Tech Specs: Meade 12” LX-90, Antares Focal Reducer, ZWO AS071 running at -10C, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, ZWO ASIAir Plus, ZWO EAF, 60 x 60 second exposures, darks from the library and flats after the imaging session, DeepSkyStacker and Tycho Tracker. Image Date: December 14, 2022. Location: The Dark Side Observatory (W59), Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).
Last Monday at 2:40am i captured the first heralds of the cold season in the northern hemisphere:
Pleiades (M45) and California Nebula (NGC 1499) surrounded by the IFN
Canon EOS 6D (not astromodified) | EF f/2.8L 100mm Macro
mounted on Bresser MON2
f/4.0 | ISO3200 | 20x180sec
Stacking with DeepSkystacker
Stretching and postprocessing in Fitswork and PS
A reprocess of previous data - NGC2244 / Rosette nebula.
ED80 - ATIK16HR - astronomik ha clip/baader OIII filters. Processed in photoshop - capture/stacking nebulosity.
i really must leave this data alone now :D
An unguided image of the open star cluster M52 in the constellation Cassiopeia taken with a ZWOASI183MC camera using an Explore Scientific 102ED refracting telescope. 100 twelve second light frames, 20 dark frames, and 10 flat frames were processed using DeepSkyStacker and Adobe Lightroom.
Taken using Skywatcher 80ED Pro (.85XFR), Nikon D3300, 104x30" lights (ISO 1600), 100 flats, 110 bias. Stacked in DeepSkyStacker and processed in Photoshop.
Pelican, North American Nebulae narrowband 2 panel mosaic. Each panel was stacked, assembled, and processed with the following exposure times for each panel: 20X600"Ha, 20X600"OIII, and 20X600"SII.
Equipment used:
Canon 200mm f2.8 lens at f4, Atik 428ex camera, AP900 mount, DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop levels, curves, blending, guided with ZWO174mm and Stellarvue SVR90T.
13 x 1-minute unguided exposures at ISO 3200.
Astro-modified EOS 600D & Revelation 12" f/4 Newtonian reflector telescope.
Frames registered and stacked using DeepSkyStacker; curves adjusted and cropped in Paint Shop Pro.
The open cluster NGC 2158 is one of those things that made me do a “double take” when I got back into astrophotography several years ago. Of course I knew about the open cluster Messier 35 (M35), but when I looked at my first DSLR photo of M35 and spotted that hazy little ball nearby, I thought I found something new, a comet perhaps….not the case.
NGC 2158 is located in the constellation Gemini, southwest of M35. While it looks like they are close together, NGC 2158 is actually around 9,000 light-years behind M35 (11,000 light-years from Earth). It has an apparent magnitude of 8.6.
Tech Specs: The close-up image is composed of 14 x 60 second images at ISO 3,200 with 5 x 15 second darks and 5 x 1/4000 second bias frames using a Meade LX90 12” telescope and Canon 6D camera mounted on a Celestron CGEM-DX mount. Imaging was done on February 26, 2017 from Weatherly, Pennsylvania. The wide-field inset view was taken in 2014 using a Canon 6D and 400mm lens.
Online references:
Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_2158)
DeepSkyPedia (deepskypedia.com/wiki/NGC_2158)
DSO-Browser (dso-browser.com/deep-sky/3084/ngc-2158/open-cluster)
Target:IC 443 Jellyfish Nebula a supernova remnant in the constellation of Gemini at 5000 light years distance.
Location:Shot over three nights in Feb 2021 from St Helens UK Bortle 8 around full Moon.
Aquisition:65x 180s Ha, 45x 180s (OIII), 45x 180s (SII). Total integration 7 hours 45 min.
Equipment:Imaging: Skywatcher Esprit 100ED, HEQ5Pro, ZWO ASI1600MM Pro, EFWmini with Baader narrowband filters.
Guiding: Skywatcher 9x50 Finder with ZWO ASI120MM.
Software:Aquisition: NINA, PHD2, EQMOD
Processing: DeepSkyStacker, Siril, Starnet++, Photoshop.
Memories:All 3 nights (16, 25, 26 Feb 2021) clear and calm but full Moon generating gradients. Still worth imaging though, an enjoyable project. Processed as SHO.
My Astrophotography
Messier 81 and 82 are a pair of galaxies in Ursa Major (near the Big Dipper). They are about 12 million light years away.
Equipment
Main Scope:
152mm David H. Levy Comet Hunter at Focal length 730mm
Guiding Scope: 50mm. Focal 180mm
Mount: Skywatcher EQ-5 Pro Synscan Goto
Guide camera: ZWO ASI120mm
Main camera: ZWO ASI294MC -Pro cooled camera
Imaging Software: stellarmate EKos
Accessories:
Stellarmate Plus
Pegasus Pocket Powerbox
Quad Channel Digital Dew Controller
Sesto Senso focuser
ASC 20cm USB dew heater for guide scope
ASC-150cm dew heater (12V) for main scope
Programs:
DeePSkYStacker
PixInsight
Adobe Lightroom
Details:
2 Days 4/2/2021 and 19/3/2021
Camera temp: -15°C
Gain: 80
Light: 35x90s (52 muniutes)
Light: 120*60s (2 hours)
Light:
Total of 2.52 hours
Taken From Bortle 4/5
Humidity 70%
Moon: 57.7%, Waning Crescent - in day 1
moon: 30.8%, Waxing Crescent - in day 2
Rosette Nebula 30x300sec light pics
30x darks
30x bias
30x flat
Skywatcher ed80 - 600mm
Skywatcher AZ GTI
Asi294mc
Asi120mm
ZWO Guid scope
Celestron power tank 13
AsiairPro
DeepskyStacker + iPhone Photos App
Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) imaged at around 01:41CEST on 19 July 2020 from the beach at Wassenaar in The Netherlands.
The weather was unhelpful, with clouds drifting through, and this is the best set I could get in the brief time before it was completely socked in. At least it shows the ion tail nicely, extending to 15º or more from the nucleus.
Nikon D7000 + 85mm lens at f/2, 40 x 3 sec exposures unguided at ISO 800. Aligned and combined in DeepSkyStacker, then post-processed in LightRoom.
The small purple squares around the brighter stars are probably linked to saturation in the CMOS detector, enhanced in this processing. The whole image is more "impressionistic" than accurate, colour balance included, but hey, we've also seen more than enough pristine Comet NEOWISE pictures, right? :-)
Chinese astronomers in 1054 recorded a new 'star'. This new star was visible during the daytime for almost a month.
What they were actually witnessing was a supernova, the death of a star.
This particular star was about 6,500 light years away. They didn't know it at the time but, they were witnessing something that actually happened around 5,450 BC.
It's believed that the Crab Nebula is the remnants of that supernova.
M1 is six light years across!
It was first discovered in 1731 by John Bevis. M1 is what inspired Charles Messier to later start his now famous Messier catalogue. After he thought he'd found Halley's comet and realised it wasn't, he decided to make a list of things that weren't comets, and so therefore, not worth observing. Now, every astronomer and astrophotographer are fascinated by them.
BORING techie bit:
Captured using a Skywatcher Quattro 8" with f4 coma corrector on a HEQ5 mount.
Guided using an Altair 50mm guidescope and GPcam combo.
Canon 450D astro modified and with Astronomik CLS CCD APS-C clip in filter.
Location: Newhey, Rochdale, UK.
13 exposures of 3 minutes each. Stacked together with calibration frames using DSS and all processing done with StarTools.
FSQ106ED + QE0.73X + QHY600EB(-15C)
Astrodon Tru-Balance E-Series Gen2
L31x180sec+10x60sec,R12x180sec,G10x180sec,B10x180sec
on SkyWatcher AZ-EQ6GT (Total:199min)
Guiding: QHYOAG + ASI120MM-Mini + ASIAir
DeepSkyStacker, StellaImage7, Photoshop CC2019
Locations: Kamogawa Sports Park, Kibichuocho, Okayama, Japan
Oct. 2019
Object name: Pincushion Cluster/Football Cluster/Black Arrow Cluster/Wishing Well Cluster - RGB+SHO
Constellation: Carina
Object ID: NGC3532, NGC3503, NGC3572, NGC3590, NGC3576, NGC3579
Coordinates: RA: 11h08m10.081s, DEC: -59°35’52.128”
Apparent FOV/Radius: 3.07° x 2.05° (184.2 x 123.0 arc-min)/1.847°
FOV Angle: Up is 316.7° E of N
Object Apparent Dimensions: 03°04’12” x 02°03’00” (184.2 x 123.0 arc-min)
Exposure Date: 4, 6, 8, 9, 18, 19, 23 April 2025
Sky Bortle Class: 5
Distaance: ~8,500 LY
Magnitude: 1.0
Exposures: Hα:111x90s, OIII:100x120s, SII:78x180s, R:210x60s, G:265x60s, B:180x60s @ HCG2CMS:62/OFS:25 (20h55m30s)
Telescope: Celestron C8 HyperStar V4
Actual Focal length: 389.73mm (f1.9)
Camera: QHY268M -5°C BIN1x1
Resolution: 1.99”/px
Guiding: ToupTek G3M220M on BOSMA refractor guide scope and GPUSB.
Mount: CGEM-HT
Capture & Guide Software: Astrophotography Tool 4.60, PHD2.6.13dev7 Guiding
Processing Software: Siril 1.2.6, DeepSkyStacker 5.1.10, Photoshop CS4, GraXpert 3.1.0rc2, Starnet V2, Cosmic Clarity Suite 6.5AI3.5.
A reflection nebula in the constellation of Orion, often called The Running Man Nebula.
NGC1977 is actually made up of three nebulae, those being NGC1973, NGC1975 and NGC1977.
It was first discovered by William Herschel in 1786 and is roughly about 1,460 light years from us.
Boring techie bit:
Skywatcher Quattro 8" Newtonian Reflector steel tube with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair Starwave 50mm guide scope, ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini, ZWO asi533mc pro, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO asiair plus.
180s exposures, Gain110 at -20c
Best 75% of 80 light frames.
Darks, Flats & Bias.
Stacked with DeepSkyStacker, and processed in StarTools.
Manually guided for 8 x 7-minute exposures at ISO 1600, f/6.25. Modified EOS 600D & Sky-Watcher ED80 refractor, piggybacked on a Celestron C8 telescope for guiding.
Registered and stacked using DeepSkyStacker; initial curves adjusted in Canon Photo Professional; final curves & colour-balance adjusted using Paint Shop Pro; noise reduction via CyberLink PhotoDirector.
Orion nebula photographed with 2.8/300 mm lens.
Yes, that works quite well!
0.8 sec exposure time, aperture 2.8, ISO 6400, approx. 5x digital magnification.
63 photos out of 100 selected and calculated with DeepSkyStacker, with 15 darkframes (calculation of image noise) and 15 biasframes (calculation of transmission noise)
Without tracking!
Tripod low, no wind.
... con l'80ino tripletto, lo so, tedio, ma volevo rifarla degnamente con quest'ottica :)
autori, me e Valentina Saltarelli (sempre più stoica, alla stregua di Messner alla ghiaccio tutta la notte, ha resistito fino ai flat)
Telescopi di acquisizione: Apo triplet 80/480
Camere di acquisizione: Canon / CentralDS EOS Astro 50D
Montature: Sky-Watcher EQ6 Pro
Telescopi guida: Telescopio guida 60/228mm
Camere di guida: lacerta mgen2
Software: DeepSkyStacker, Adobe Lightroom 3, Silicon Fields StarTools 1.3
Filtri: Orion SkyGlow 2" Imaging Filter
Accessori: Orion 2x Shorty Barlow Lens
Date: 06 novembre 2013, 06 dicembre 2013, 07 dicembre 2013
Luoghi: Fubine (AL), Cossombrato (AT)
Pose:
Orion SkyGlow 2" Imaging Filter: 20x300" ISO1600 -18C bin 1x1
Orion SkyGlow 2" Imaging Filter: 5x420" ISO1600 -19C bin 1x1
Orion SkyGlow 2" Imaging Filter: 8x180" ISO2500 -5C bin 1x1
Integrazione: 2.6 ore
LDN 673 (upper right quadrant) is one of those dark nebula that I often stopped to admire when surfing astroimages. I was excited to find that I could capture some of its structure at 135mm, and that it would fit nicely in the same 135mm extent with the more frequently imaged Barnard's E. This shot has been planned for awhile but took me awhile to get to.
Acquisition details: Fujifilm X-T10; Samyang 135mm f/2.0 ED UMC @ f2.0, ISO 1600; tracking with iOptron SkyTracker Pro; 36 x 60 sec; stacking with DeepSkyStacker; editing with Astro Pixel Processor; and curves adjustment/star reduction/editing with GIMP; taken on Sept. 2, 2021 under Bortle 3/4 skies.
I shot this area with this exact framing last December, but wanted to improve my image. This time my focus was better (I didn't have a Bahtinov mask then), I shot and processed raw (jpeg last time), and I used Astro Pixel Processor tools for processing.
The only thing that wasn't better this time around was my tracking - I only used 50% of my subs, many of which still had slightly trailed stars; I think my balance was off. I would have liked more integration time, but still got a result I'm happy with using only 35 minutes of data.
Fujifilm X-T10, Samyang 135mm f/2.0 ED UMC @ f2.0, ISO 1600, 35 x 60 sec, tracking with iOptron SkyTracker Pro, stacking with DeepSkyStacker, editing with Astro Pixel Processor and GIMP, taken on Oct. 6, 2019 under Bortle 3/4 skies.
Jan 7 2020 edit: A very slight re-edit - I monkeyed with the original stack a bit less this time - I like the Horsehead Nebula better in this version.
This is a stack of 30 exposures of 60s each of the Cygnus constellation (plus 8 dark-frames). The camera (Sony ILCE7) and the prime lens (Sonnar T* FE 55mm F1.8 ZA) have been attached to a "Star Adventurer"-mount in order to compensate for earth rotation, while shooting at F2.8/ISO 1600. Stacking has been done with DeepSkyStacker, and final editing with Photoshop CC 2015.
My first go at the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) using the TAIR-3S (300 mm f/4.5) and unmodified Samsung NX30. 44x 30 s (+20 dark frames, 20 bias frames) @ ISO 3200. Tracking using clockwork-driven barndoor mount. Focusing with Bahtinov mask. Stacking with DeepSkyStacker using Superpixel Debayering. Post-processing using Fitswork and Aurora HDR 2018.
The image was acquired from Byala, Bulgaria at the Black Sea coast while the galaxy stood nicely over the ocean on a clear, moonless night, minimising background sky brightness. No optical filters.
EDIT: I wasn't satisfied with the previous version, particularly the strong red chromatic aberrations around the stars. I finally found a way to reasonably correct that using Fitswork. I additionally used Fitswork for de-vignetting and noise reduction (wavelet filter), as well as some subtle color balance corrections.
GSO 10" f/4 Newtonian on CEM60,SX Trius pro 694,filterwheel and OAG with Baader MPCC coma corrector.
4x900sec Ha,4x900sec OIII
both sets stacked in Deepskystacker,BiColour (Ha,OIII,OIII) assembled and processed in Photoshop using Annie's action tools.
Taken early hours 21/07/16
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Scope: Celestron 8 inch Schmidt-Cassegrain .
Camera: full spectrum Canon T1i
Mount: Orion Sirius - EQMOD driven
6 HRS integration
Software: Astrophotography tool, PHD2, DeepSkyStacker 64, PS CS5
An image of the Double Cluster in Perseus taken this evening with a ZWOASI183MC Pro camera attached to a Celestron C6-N reflecting telescope. 36 thirty second images were stacked with DeepSkyStacker and processed with Adobe Lightroom.
Orion NGC 2024,Flame Nebula
Part of constellation of Orion
Canon 80D /Sigma 150-600c @500
20sec f/6.3 /ISO 1250 Star Adventurer
Stack of 100 pics / 2000 sec total
40 BIAS / 40 darks
processed with DSS / ON1 RAW / LR
Pic's taken on 2020-04-01
Now I got a way to develop the picture
Needs more exposure time....
The thin, dark disk of dust around the galaxy shows up very nicely.
33 x 1-minute at ISO 6400 (taken 14 April 2020) and 8 x 3-minutes at ISO 1600 (taken 8 May 2018). Modified EOS 600D & Revelation 12" Newtonian f/4 reflector telescope.
Frames registered and stacked in DeepSkyStacker software; curves adjusted in Canon Photo Professional; noise reduction in CyberLink PhotoDirector.
Note that I've cropped the result quite extensively, as I'd framed the galaxy very differently in the 2020 and 2018 exposures, so the edges were very uneven.
Taken with a Sigma AF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 APO DG at 200mm and f/5, Canon T3i DSLR, and Celestron Advanced VX mount. Consists of 35 light and 35 dark frames, each a 90-second exposure at ISO 800, and 21 flat frames. Captured with BackyardEOS, stacked in DeepSkyStacker, and processed in Photoshop.
Data for this was captured at the end of an imaging session back in September and has been hiding on my hard drive ever since!
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Location: Killygordon, Co. Donegal, Ireland.
Time: 00:00 - 01:00
Date: 22 Sep 2012
Target: Andromeda Galaxy
Exposures: 4 x 10 minute exposures (10 x Darks, 5 x Flats)
Equipment:
Mount- Celestron CG5-GT (unguided)
Camera- Self-modified Canon 1000D
Telescope- Celestron Oynx 80ED
Additional- Astronomik cls clip LP filter.
Stacking & Processing: DeepSkyStacker & Photoshop CS5
This is the Great Orion Nebula which spans 14 light years across. This Nebula is a nursery for stars that are only 1 million years old. This makes them practically infants when you compare them to our own Sun, with an age of 5 billion years. The Nebula sits approximately 1,500 light years away from us.
Stack of 20 light frames in polluted urban skies. 30 Second exposures.
Canon 7D mark II + Canon 70-200 f2.8 IS II lens @ 200mm f3.5
Thanks for looking.
© Moe Ali Photography
It's 3 panel mosaic from data which I was gathering for 5 nights (1 night for main panel and 2 nights for each arm). Each panel was drizzled 2x in DeepSkyStacker what resulted in 130 Mpix image after the final crop.
Equipment:
Scope: GSO 8" f/4
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ6 R
Camera: Canon 600D mod
Guide scope: ZWO 60/280mm
Guide camera: ZWO ASI 120MC-S
Coma corrector: Baader Mark III MPCC
Filters: Baader UV/IR Cut (L) 2"
Acquisition:
Lights: 57x180" ISO 800 for each panel
Calibration frames: 50x Darks (for each panel), 50x Flats, 50x Bias
Total integration time: 8h 33m
Localization: Small village near Płock, Poland (Bortle 5)
Software:
Guiding: PhD2
Capture: APT
Mount control: Stellarium (ASCOM)
Postprocessing: Deep Sky Stacker, Pixinsight, Photoshop, Lightroom
Camera: Nikon D50
Exposure: 30m (14 frames) ISO 800 RGB
Focus Method: Prime focus
Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm
Mount: LXD75
Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian
Guided: Yes - PHD Guiding
Stacked: DeepSkyStacker
Adjustments: cropped/leveled in Photoshop
Location: Flintstone, GA
This is NGC2841 The Tiger's Eye galaxy.
First discovered by William Herschel 9th of March 1788.
It's an unbarred spiral galaxy which can be found in the constellation of Ursa Major (the Great Bear).
It's 46 million light years away and approximately 150,000 light years across, so, quite big.
Imaged taken 5th of January 2022 from my back garden.
Boring techie bit.
Skywatcher quattro 8" S & f4 aplanatic coma corrector
HEQ5 pro mount guided with an Altair 50mm & GPcam setup
Canon 450D astro modded with Astronomik CLS CCD EOS APS-C clip filter. Neewer Intervalometer used to control the exposures.
Canon 135 f/2 (stopped down to 2.8) lens attached to SX Trius 694 + Baader 7nm Ha filter piggybacked to main scope on a CEM60 was used to capture eleven subframes at 300 seconds each. Stacked in Deepskystacker and processed in StarTools and Photoshop CS2
Taken 07/01/22